Timothy Snyder is a Yale historian. I’ve reviewed his books “Bloodlands” and “Black Earth” about the holocaust here and elsewhere. Snyder isn’t Israeli and he isn’t Jewish. But I think the comments he posted today on his Substack blog “Thinking about” deserve reflection. Here are the money grafs:“In evaluating what Hamas has done, it is important to remember that the atrocious crimes are not (or are not only) ends in themselves. They are utterly...

[embedded content]The First Of A Robert Paul Wolff Series Of Lectures On MarxWolff raises the question of why Marx writes like he does in the first volume of Capital. The rest of Wolff's lectures: Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Seth Ackerman, in Jacobin, on Marxist crisis theory. Nathan Robinson pans Thomas Sowell. Unlearning Economics disagrees with Sabine Hossenfelder. (Her original video.)

Men and Older Americans Eat the Most Beef, businessinsider.com, Catherine Boudreau Just 12% of Americans are eating half of the nation’s beef — the ‘Hummer of animal proteins.’ A study found twelve percent of Americans are eating half of all the beef consumed in the US in a day. Fifty- to sixty-five-year-old men are most likely to eat beef. Some benefits could be had for the planet if some people ditched beef for another protein....

Weapons Gun Manufacturer Ditches Blue State, Moves South, America Insider Carver Malone. NRA Executive Director of Advancement Tyler Schropp . . . “This move is a testament to their enduring legacy, their commitment to firearm excellence, and to the importance of preserving America’s gun industry and Second Amendment rights in a fair environment.” “Representing millions of NRA members and gun owners, the NRA was proud to be the tip of the...

Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xian, China) organized a conference themed Human Civilization and Culture Forum. In this conference Prof. S. Mavroudeas (Dept. of Social Policy, Panteion University) participated as invited speaker and presented a paper titled “De-globalization and the return of the theory of Imperialism’.

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Scenes from the September jobs report: a look at leading indicators  – by New Deal democrat Today is a holiday, so no new economic news. So let’s take a look at some of the leading indicators I was tracking last week for the employment report, and some leading indicators for the economy within that report itself. In the JOLTS report for August last week, quits rose slightly from their 30 month low set in July, leaving the declining trend...

The brutality and horror coming out of Israel is sickening. Hard to focus on the markets. 

Carlos García Hernández explains how he came up with the idea for his concept of fiat socialism that led to writing book based on MMT.Fiat Socialism was recently published and it is also available for subscribers to read as an ebook at Scribd.The Gower Initiative for Modern Money StudiesThe story behind Fiat SocialismCarlos García Hernández, author of Fiat Socialism: Achieving the goals of socialism through modern monetary theory. Carlos lives in Spain.See alsoThe Gower Initiative for Modern...